SENIOR CITIZENS AND WOMEN BEWARE!!!!
If I could give this business ZERO stars I would!!! A technician who's name I believe was William (not 100% sure) came to my residence to check on the refrigerator unit that's been giving off a putrid smell for the past week. After checking high and low and ruling out a dead mouse, my husband and I began to research google and YouTube to see if we could find what it could be based on similar experiences and descriptions. The beauty of the internet!
We came across a very helpful channel that we felt explained exactly what we were experiencing and tried to rectify it on our own. Unfortunately we also discovered that our brand of fridge (Frigidaire) had their spill tray screwed in from the bottom which required tilting our entire enormous unit on its back to access the spill tray and clean out any debris. We hoped there was another way to access it that we just weren't aware of and had my father in law contact a service company. That company turned out to be ACME. Big mistake!
William shows up & immediately went for the dead mouse route. I quickly explained that we searched for a dead animal and that one had not been found. I explained what we discovered from our research and explained that the smell kicks up once the fan belt in the unit kicks on which we believe is coming from the spill tray under the unit. This man didn't seem to like my insight. Rolled his eyes and seemed bothered. How dare I step into his domain with my ideas?! He gave me a smug look and an under the breath chuckle which felt like his passive aggressive way of telling me to shut up. So guess what? I shut up and went about by business in the house and let the "expert" do his job.
After several minutes of him looking for a dead animal, I heard him tell my father in law who is a senior citizen, "I really expected to find a dead animal under here." I told him it wasn't a dead animal but no harm in double checking, right? He went on now to agree that it could very well be the spill pan and wanted to know if my father in law wanted to replace it. I interjected and asked if he could just remove the spill pan so that we could clean it and then have him reinstall it. He told me with a shit eating attitude, "that's too much work!" and shrugged his shoulders. I'm sorry, I thought we placed a service call. Apparently not. We asked how much the replacement piece was, he stated $80. I asked him how much labor would cost, he stated, $75.
I went on to point out, "well, in order to replace the spill tray, you would have to do the same exact work you just said was too much work minus the $80 replacement fee. We would obviously still pay you for your labor but we would rather just clean the spill tray we have now and save $80." His response was, "so I'm supposed to wait around for you to clean the tray?" in which he ended with a chuckle and more shoulder shrugging. This man was flat out RUDE!
Once my father in law started to agree with me, this rude man went on to say, "oh, so I'm taking orders from her now? She's the boss here? Everything goes through her?" As if trying to patronize my father in law into somehow taking control of my inquiries. I couldn't even believe what I was hearing and witnessing. YES, sir. This is my home and even though a MAN called you for the service, a WOMAN was now stepping in to find an amicable solution to your unreasonable one.
We saw no good reason to have to spend $80 on an unnecessary part and had he explained why we needed to replace it, we could have taken his expertise into consideration. Unfortunately his seemingly misogynistic tantrum over who he had to take "orders" from missed the mark and let me know that his frustrations were occurring because he could not give us any good reason why we would have to spend $80 on an unnecessary part! Not sure if he's in the business of conning elderly people or women out of money but this wasn't the household for those kinds of tricks.
He then went on to RAISE HIS VOICE in my home once I responded to his misogyny by pointing out his poor attitude and aggressiveness towards me. I then asked him to flat out leave and told him we wouldn't need his services. He combatively claimed he'd leave, "once I get my money!" How much? $100 for NOTHING! He literally came into our home, said it was a dead rodent, was told that we checked for that and that it was not, moved the fridge forward, looked behind it, pushed it back and looked under it. Said there was no dead rodent and then went on to tell my father in law that he (the senior citizen) would have to do EXACTLY what I stated we wanted HIM (the technician) to do OR get this.. wait for the smell to go away on its own "once the pan dries out." When asked how long that could take he simply said, "I don't know, a week or two." SURE, smell rot for another week or two in our kitchen until whatever it is dries out. THAT IS WHAT $100 from a senior citizen paid for. read more